Germany's general election campaign took Wednesday a new turn when the conservative candidate, Edmund Stoiber, pledged himself to the deportation of 4,000 alleged Muslim militants if he is voted in as chancellor on Sunday.
"There always has to be a difference between tolerance and stupidity," he declared, according to the British Guardian daily.
Behind in most polls, the Bavarian governor told his crowd that there were 30,000 identified Muslim fundamentalist extremists in Germany.
Stoiber added: "Among these 30,000 so-called Islamists, there are 4,000 who are ready for violence. The police know that; 4,000 are known by name as being disposed to violence and are suspected of belonging to foreign terrorist organizations such as the Algerian GIA. I say to you: these 4,000 - I will expel them from the country." (Albawaba.com)
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